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HUNTER SCHAFER

What was your FIRST dragon age game and race/class/personality (if da2)?

and the original graphic novel is phenomenal:

I highly recommend them both

1) lewis prothero as a rush limbaugh/glenn beck/bill o’reilly type is both more applicable and way funnier than a 1940s radio propagandist 

2) it has stephen fry as gordon detriech, and makes him explicitly gay and pretending to be attracted to evey as part of being closeted than actually attracted to evey and having sex with her while she hides in his home.

3) the movie came out in 2005; that is, only four years after 9/11, while the Iraq war was still in full swing, and while xenophobia and Islamophobia were not just acceptable, but tacitly encouraged by the administration at the time. which makes the following exchange even more poignant and sweet:

Evey: [seeing a book in a glass display case] What is that? Gordon: It’s a copy of the Qur’an, 14th century. Evey: [shocked] Are you a Muslim? Gordon: No, I’m in television. Evey: But why would you keep it? Gordon: I don’t have to be a Muslim to find the images beautiful or its poetry moving.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years, I had roses, and apologize to no one.

I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An Inch, it is small and it is fragile, but it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you. -Valerie”

Concepting Veilguard companion Husk…

- his arc would be about getting the mask off, as it controls him. He can resist but it’s a constant battle and takes a toll on him

- Antoine gives his recruitment mission after dealing with the weird blight in Hossberg, saying he’s studied the blight enough to know there’s only one person out there who could hear it more clearly. Another warden secret; an awakened darkspawn wandering the Anderfels killing brood mothers. Last correspondence Antoine had w Husk was right after the ritual went wrong and he’s worried something happened.

-you have to rescue Husk from one of Ghilan’nain’s labs. Fight him first and once he’s down, he will come to his senses and help you fight off other ‘experiments’ to get out of the lab alive.

-his companion ability is clearing impassible walls of blight that have no pustules to burst. He can tap into the song and control them briefly.

-his place in the lighthouse is an outlying floating rock only accessible by one of those portal jump things. Ghilan’nain’s control can’t penetrate the lighthouse wards, so it’s the only place he can actually rest.